Collum, Atkinson will apologize about St Mirren vs Celtic penalty incident

Brendan Rodgers I saw his team take another great step towards the title of the Premier League Scottish with a 5-2 victory in San Mirren Saturday (March 1).

But while the score may seem comfortable for Celtic, things may have been different if a key decision had come out in a different way in the game.

St Mirren denied a potentially key penalty in defeat

With less than five minutes of remaining normal time and the Scottish champions that lead 3-2, the hosts felt that they should have had the opportunity to match from the place.

After the ball was played with Roland Idowu inside the Celtic Penalty area, the substitute for ST Mirren fell after a sliding challenge of Alastica Johnston.

The referee Mathew Macdermid did not grant a penalty, and despite the repetitions that Johnston obtained little if any contact in the ball, Var did not intervene to suggest a review that could have granted a spot kick.

After having survived that penalty scare, Celtic scored two late goals through Daizen Maeda and Yang Hyun-Jun to add an additional brightness to the score.

Already this season, St Mirren has spoken publicly about Var’s decisions that have gone against themAnd they are unlikely that they are happy with this either.

Earl this week, HACKETT He had praised the head of Referees of Scotland Willie Collum by His response to Duende United’s goal against Hiberniancaused by Macdermid as video assistant.

Now he has suggested that Collum may have to take similar measures again after this last incident.

Keith Hackett reacts when Celtic prevents the granting of late penalty

Talking with Soccer intern On the decision not to grant a penalty against Celtic, the former referee said:

“The referee is in a good position to make a trial, but erroneously determines that no crime has occurred.

“This was a clear and obvious mistake, so where was the VAR going to intervene and let the referee review the incident??

“This was a criminal shot, so Willie Collum, Head of Referees in Scotland and the former premier League arbitrator, Martin Atkinson, head of VAR, must apologize and advise why this error took place and what measures try to take to ensure that this error is not repeated in the future.”

Celtic is the next one in Action when they face Hibernian in the quarterfinals of the Scottish Cup next weekend, with St Mirren not playing until traveling to Motherwell in Firm Park the following week.

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